Beer: Ratings & Reviews

500 mL can; no freshness date apparent. Haven't had any Japanese lagers in a while...

The brew pours a bright golden-yellow colour, atop which is seated roughly a finger of puffy white head. It lasts for a minute or two before dissipating and leaving a soapy cap and collar on the surface. *Very* faint aroma, with only subtle hints of sweet grains and grass. Similar to domestic pale lagers but a bit cleaner.

Taste is of grainy malts and rice, with some light honey sweetness and a bit of grass. A little drying in the finish, but calling it 'super dry' is misleading at best, and a blatant lie at worst. No real hop presence. Finishes mostly clean, with only that twinge of dryness. Light-bodied with appropriately high carbonation, and it's as easy to throw back as any pale lager.

Not interesting in the least, but it's crisp, refreshing, and palatable enough (or at the very least, not especially unpalatable). Drier than Sapporo Premium, but in the grand scheme of things not much different from most mediocre rice lagers. Something to pass on if you're not a fan of the style, but it works well enough with sushi or salty snacks.

While on vacation I rolled into a sushi place for a light night snack and wanted to have another beer. This was literally the only one on the menu, so I ordered myself a giant can of the stuff.

Asahi dry has a very clear golden body with a ton of carbonation bubbles that lead to a huge white head. The head is huge initially anyway, but it fades away to almost nothing pretty quickly. It does manage to leave some lacing behind though.

The aroma has a plastic-like sweet smell to it, with a touch of sour malt to go along with it. Basically, it smells like most other adjunct lagers I have come across.

Asahi Super Dry may smell like your average adjunct lager, but I think it might actually taste worse. Slightly mettalic flavors are probably the highlight, as they are followed up by a slightly sour, sickeningly sweet malt flavor. It has that corn/rice/plastic thing going for it pretty well. IT does manage to finish fairly dry, which is a good thing for a beer with “super dry” in its name I suppose.

Light, fizzy, dry in the finish.

I doubt that I will be giving this one another try, definitely something I would advise others to avoid.

This beer is a very clear light but very bright gold. A bit of head rises up spritzy but not without substance, but it does fade quickly and little foam is left. A touch of lacing is left around.There's a grains presence in the nose. A little bit of something like straw with a mild sweetness and green apple tartness pretty much make it up.There's no real hops presence here and a bit of dry malts. Green apple with a little sourness but not the terrible sourness of some adjuncts combines with a light sweetness."Super dry" might be a stretch; it goes pretty dry in the finish, but I'd call it semi-dry overall. It's light as expected, with a constant carbonation keeping it from flatness. I'd expect it to be a bit crisper, though it is to a point, and it's not terribly lacking smoothness either.

Had this in Japan 10 years ago. Picked up a single at Wegman's. Contract brewed by Molson this time. Typical macro appearance and aroma. Some rice/corn/grain smell. Slight metallic and light taste. Mouthfeel was easy drinking and reminded me enough of the Japanese version. Not so great but at least brought back some good memories.

Pale, straw colored lager with lots of bubbles. Head has a descent retention and leaves a patch of lace her and there.

One of the cleanest scents I have yet to experience in a beer. I am getting a hint of buttered bread and that is it.

Mild malt character, rice flavor is more pronounced although still on the weak side. Sweet overall flavor and hops do little to balance. Could use more depth and a more pronounced hop character.

Light feel and overcarbonated.

Being the first Japanese rice lager I have tried, I did not have anything to compare against. From what I can imagine others of the style taste like, this would still be about average. There is really nothing here to get excited about (or repulsed about for that matter.) Just a bland, flavorless beer.

M - Asahi Super Dry is dry but I wouldn't call it super dry. We're not talkin' champagne here. It's almost creamy with a smooth feel. Quite a surprise with how carbonated this one is. Super Dry finish with a clean, crisp finish.

O - A session beer worthy of washing down some spicy Mongolian food, it's certainly not my top pick for an Asian brew, but it's not awful.

I enjoy this beer, not too cold, like perhaps lukewarm. It is good to eat with Duh! Japanese food, like sushi, hibachi and others.

Its super easy to drink. Not a lot of carbonation is used, Some might find this non exciting and perhaps watery, but then again it is japanese sooo everything is made from like rice, water and in a healthy manner.

The taste is nothing to be excited about, I know, but you can knock this one glass after glass or bottle after bottle. not bitter, and you can still enjoy the beer like taste that it provides.

Asahi Super Dry has a thick, white head and a clear, bubbly, straw appearance, with a decent amount of lacing left behind. The aroma is of indistinguishable grains and some slight sweetness. Taste is initially of malt, but then at the middle to the end of the sip one encounters a partially sweet alcohol flavor, and this is fairly bold. The aftertaste is grassy and stinging. The mouthfeel is light and watery, and Asahi Super Dry finishes crisp, clean, refreshing, and super dry. Overall, I really like this beer, and I recommend it.

Certainly fits the 'dry' moniker, but so does bud 'dry'. Lacks hops. Lacks malt or any toasting. Just a palate cleansing beer, good for if you want to taste food, or wash up your mouth before a beer with taste. Crisp, dry, clean, even a little bit bitter and metallic.

A: The lager is light, a pale straw color that steadfastly retains its yellow color. Crystal clear, even a small stream of bubbles doesn't mar the view. Snow white head, pure, comes along and even laces in a few spots.

S: Aroma is fleeting, nonexistent immediately before gradually warming to a sweet cereal grain. Nothing in the way of bittering.

T: Sweet and dry, the lager seems to revel in its ricey base. The sweetness is grainy, a mild fruitiness in tow. The dryness is evident a few seconds after a sip is gone, making me want another gulp. Bitterness is an afterthought.

M: The light body and mild sweetness aided in cutting through the fiery dinner. A good drink that does justice to Asian cuisine.

clear golden with a two finger white head that quickly disappears. smell is awful, grassy with a little skunk to it. taste is horrible, rice and grass. mouthfeel is thin and watery. overall, about what i expected, i hope not all rice beers are this disgusting.

Bottle poured into a shaker pint at a local sushi restaurant. Beer is yellow and clear with a small weak head that breaks quickly, moderate and steady carbonation, bad retention, no lacing.

Aroma is nearly non-existent.

Beer is light in body with a mild sweetness. The label says "SUPER DRY" on it but this must be a loose translation because this beer is not super dry, mildly dry is what I would have called it with a slightly tiny bitter finish. Unoffensive but unremarkable. What a loser style.

A cloud of white foam rests on top of clear fluid that barely registers on the Lovibond scale. So this is what a rice beer is supposed to look like.

Smells of...well, not much at all. There are some German hops lying in wait, but they're lazy and not very assertive. But just the fact that they're there overpowers the rice almost completely. If you really work at it you can get a rice cake smell in there, but it's deep down.

The hops are still around when you take a pull off of this, but now you get more of the rice and an odd chemical off-flavor...kind of like dish detergent.

Dry? Yes, it is. Super dry? No, sake is super dry, this is just dry. It is crisp and refreshing when cold but I bought the 33.5 ounce can so it's a bit warmer now. Despite the flaws in this beer I still managed to finish all 33.5 ounces. I should seek help.

I'm usually quite a fan of Asian lagers... I've had this one a few times, and never been blown away, but I've always been struck by its "dryness".

This beer looks just like any other half-decent lager. It has a very nice golden colour with a thin soapy head on it.

The aroma is quite bland. Faintly grainy... sort of a generic "beer" smell. Not much else.

The flavour is quite generic. It's wet, cold, and bubbly. It gets slightly sweet across the tongue, and then slightly bitter. The finish lets some of the grainy notes develop before finishing very "dry".

This isn't amazing. I'll stick to Sapporo if I want a change from my generic North American Lagers.

We pour a brew the color of sun-bleached straw. It holds a one finger white head that recedes at a medium pace. There is complete translucency, with no sediment noted, and the carbonation appears extreme. The aromatics present invoke scents of harsh metallics, baker’s yeast, and corny adjuncts. There is an additional malty flavoring that gives off suggestions of sour mash and limes. The flavoring begins with sour malts with a big lactic acid character. These give way to clean and adjuncty grain that chaperones us through the middle. The finish is quick and metallic, with no real lingering flavors. There are no hops, but that adjunct lager sweetness quality lingers, as if a flash of sugary sweetness wasn’t enough. The aftertaste breathes of dried corn, steely barley, and cool sugary sweetness, albeit mild. The body is light and the carbonation, just as it appeared, is offensively high. The feel is watery and thin, with no coating or slurp. As alluded to by the name, the ”super dryness”, is labeled as such from the state of your mouth when you’re finished drinking the beer. There is a bitter dry character that leaves the mouth slightly cooled and wet, but mostly astringently stagnant. The abv is standard, and the beer drinks easily enough.

Overall, what we enjoyed most about this brew was the look. While there was no outstanding coloring, the beer looked the part. For the style it looked appropriate, with an unexpectedly showy head. In the end, however, it fell majorly when it came to aroma and taste. Neither were full or bold, and did little to invite the drinker in for more.

Yellow and fizzy. Head was mostly not there in the pitcher but it foamed up big time even when carefully poured.

It did not smell bad but rather it hardly had any smell at all. A touch of grains was all that was detectable.

Taste wise it'll do with sushi but it's mostly just to wash things down. There's hardly any real flavor, and what there is consisted of grains and adjuncts. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't taste bad at all, it's just not very full flavored.

Body was fizzy and light.

Overall it'll do when you're eating sushi, but I'd avoid it for regular everyday drinking.